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Ariz izona Developmental Dis isabilities Pla lanning Council Positive Family Support End of f Proje ject Summary

Marianne Fillhouer, M.A., Ed.S.

Arizona State University REACH Institute

Positive Family Support Program

A school-based system to form effective partnerships with families to support student success

What It Is:

 Strengths-based program  Integrated into MTSS tiers (e.g PBIS and RtI)  Focus on family-school partnerships  Inform, Invite, Involve families in the response to student needs  Founded in scientifically established strategies including an adaptation of the Family Check-Up program and Everyday Parenting curriculum

Tiered System of Support:

• Universal
• Selected
• Individualized

Im Implementation and Im Implementers

• Universal Level – All School Staff
• Family Resource Center
• Positive Feedback to Families
• Regular Feedback to Families regarding students’ attendance, behavior, and grades
• Positive Family Outreach Activities
• Universal Screeners
• Selected Level – Classroom Teachers, Student Support Team
• Teacher-Family Collaboration
• Explicit Family Involvement in Behavior Change Plans
• Family Support Specialist
• Individualized Level – Family Support Specialist
• School-Based Family Check-Up: Interview, Assessment, Feedback, Menu of Options
• Parenting Support
• Link to Community Resources

• PreK-8 School
• 850 Students
• General Education Classrooms
• Resource Classrooms
• Developmental Pre-School
• Specialized Programs (i.e. Self-Contained Classrooms)
• Roll-out of PBIS in the 2018-2019 school year

Desert Harbor Ele lementary ry School, Peoria AZ Peoria Unifi fied School Dis istrict

Project Training

• February 2018 – Readiness Assessment and Planning Meeting
• Principal, Assistant Principal, School Psychologist, Classroom Teacher
• February and March 2018 – Tier 1 Training (Universal Level)
• 52 certified staff members
• March and April 2018 – Tier 2 Training (Selected Level)
• 14 certified staff members
• April 2018 – PFS Overview Training
• 11 classified staff members
• May 2018 – Tier 3 Training (Individualized Level)
• 9 certified staff members

Training Feedback

Universal Selected Individualized Usefulness of Information 4.33 4.57 4.77 Usefulness of Materials 4.35 4.64 4.66 Will do something differently in your job as a result of the training Yes = 94% No = 3% No Response = 3% Yes = 86% No = 14% Yes = 100% No = 0%

Universal  Learned about the importance of relationships with families  Made some self-discovery  Will do things differently  Liked the resources Selected  Amazing resources/easy to use  Will have better conversations with staff, students and parents  Will take more time to work with students and parents  Tools are helpful for teacher reflection and parent conversation  Will involve parents more and sooner  Will make sure to positively engage parents  Will use a team approach Individualized  Loved practicing FCU skills  Useful information for our school  Applied learning throughout  Valuable resources and information  Learned that it is more important to provide for our school families

Limitations

• Start date of contract (2/2/2018)
• “Red for Ed” movement (loss of staff and instructional days)
• Loss of key personnel (School Psychologist and School Psychologist

Intern)

Action Plan

• Create a family resource room
• Distribute universal screener to all families at beginning of school year
• Complete positive postcards home for all students
• Create student assistance team, including a system to identify students

who need additional support

• Use data to refer students to selected and individualized levels of

intervention

• Include caregivers in creating plans for students needing additional support
• Use PFS parenting brochures, videos, and worksheets to support families in

their parenting efforts

• Identify staff to complete the school-based Family Check-Up intervention

DH Family Resource Center

Next xt Steps

• ASU Consultant provide on-going support of PFS implementation at

Desert Harbor Elementary School throughout the 2018-2019 school year

• DH Principal received final PFS materials, including on-line access to

resources and assessment tools

• Desert Harbor distributed universal screeners
• SaNA (parent screener)
• Teacher ABC Screener
• Desert Harbor set goal for number of FCU to conduct in the 2018-

2019 school year

Questions, Comments, Final Thoughts

Thank you for the opportunity to share PFS at a local school! For more information about PFS and other REACH evidence-based programs:

• www. reachinstitute.asu.edu

480.965.7420

marianne.fillhouer@asu.edu